The Nucleus: New Physics for the New Millennium

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
New Ideas in Nuclear Structure Physics....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Structure of Light Mass (Exotic) Nuclei as Evidenced by Scattering from Hydrogen....Pages 19-26
Lifetime Measurements and Dipole Transition Rates for Superdeformed States in 190 Hg....Pages 27-31
Interactions by Inversion....Pages 33-36
K=O + Excitations in Deformed Nuclei....Pages 37-40
Competition Between Beta and Double Beta Decay in 48 Ca and 96 Zr....Pages 41-42
In-Beam Gamma Spectroscopy of very Neutron-Rich Nuclei at Ganil....Pages 43-53
Experimental Studies of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction at KVI with 190 Mev Protons....Pages 55-62
Study of Mass A=130 Fission Fragments in the 14 n + 238 U Reaction at 10 MeV/A....Pages 63-67
The Isac Radioactive Beam Facility at Triumf: Present Status and Future Plans....Pages 69-76
The Pion-Nucleus Interaction and Pionic Atoms....Pages 77-80
Nuclear Structure Physics at Yale and Beyond....Pages 81-89
Photoactivation of 180M Ta at Astrophysically Relevant Energies....Pages 91-96
Mirror Nuclei and Odd-Odd N = Z Nuclei in the f 7/2 Shell....Pages 97-103
Study of the Doubly-Odd Nucleus 66 As....Pages 105-108
Test of Parity Doubling in 223 Ra and 223 Th....Pages 109-114
Angular Distribution of Protons Emitted from Oriented Nuclei: Toward Imaging Single-Particle Wave Functions....Pages 115-119
Probing Highly-fragmented Giant Resonances: Coincidence Experiments in the New Millennium....Pages 121-126
Clustering in Nuclei from N/Z=1 to N/Z=2....Pages 127-142
The Development and Applications of Scintillator-Photodiode Detectors....Pages 143-149
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Present Status of NEMO 3: A Double-Beta Decay Experiment without Antineutrino Emission....Pages 151-157
Collectivity in Medium Mass N≈Z Nuclei: Rotation Induced Octupole Correlations....Pages 159-168
Competition of Fission With the Population of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in 194 Pb....Pages 169-171
New Superdeformed Bands in 150 Gd....Pages 173-183
Double-Phonon γ-Vibration of Deformed Nuclei....Pages 185-189
 N -Parity Projected BCS Theory....Pages 191-198
Access to Gamma-ray Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich sdfp Shell Nuclei....Pages 199-204
Applications in Nuclear Structure of a Family of Q-Deformed Algebras....Pages 205-211
Magnetic*#x2014; Rotational Bands in Pb Isotopes....Pages 213-220
Meson Production Near Threshold....Pages 221-235
Object-Oriented Programming for Nuclear Physics Measurements....Pages 237-240
Recent Results from In-Beam Studies of Very Neutron-Deficient Nuclei....Pages 241-249
Extrapolation of Astrophysical S Factors to Zero Energy....Pages 251-255
Shape-Coexistence in 74 Kr....Pages 257-260
High-Spin States in the Transitional Palladium Nuclei Observed in Heavy-Ion Induced Fission....Pages 261-262
First Identification of High Spin States in 164 Ta....Pages 263-267
The Use of a Realistic Effective Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction in Pre-Equilibrium Scattering....Pages 269-273
Gamma-Ray Array Physics....Pages 275-286
Study of the Strength Distribution of the Primary γ-Rays in the Decay From Superdeformed States in 194 Hg....Pages 287-291
γ-Ray Studies of Induced Fission 12 C+ 238 U....Pages 293-295
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
New Measurements of Level Densities....Pages 297-298
Study of High-Spin States in 190 Pt....Pages 299-301
Projectile Fragmentation Studies with the Most Exotic Nuclei....Pages 303-314
Systematics of Low-Lying Dipole Strength in Heavy Nuclei from Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Experiments....Pages 315-319
Systematics of Terminating Configurations in A ≈100 Pd Nuclei....Pages 321-329
Enhanced E1-Decay from Triaxial SD Bands in 164 Lu....Pages 331-334
Variational Approach to Medium Mass N=Z Nuclei....Pages 335-338
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of Fission Fragments Induced by Heavy Ions: from Nuclear Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei to Mechanism Studies....Pages 339-346
Analogies Between Terminating Bands in Sn/Sb and Zn Nuclei and Magnetic Bands in Pb Nuclei....Pages 347-354
A Decade of Proton Continuum Scattering at the NAC — What Have We Learnt?....Pages 355-364
The A~130 Highly-Deformed Region: New Results and Global Differential Lifetime Measurements....Pages 365-377
Quasi-Dynamical Symmetry — A New Use of Symmetry in Nuclear Physics....Pages 379-395
Prompt Particle Decays of Deformed Second Minima....Pages 397-412
Unified Derivation of Self-Consistent Multipole Interactions in Nuclei....Pages 413-416
The Recoil Shadow Anisotropy Method....Pages 417-422
Alpha Particle Emission in the Interaction of 400 MeV 12 C with 59 Co and 93 Nb....Pages 423-430
Decay out of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in 191 Hg....Pages 431-434
Spectroscopy at the Highest Spins in Normal Deformed Nuclei....Pages 435-443
Generalized Impulse Approximation Applied to Quasielastic Polarized Proton Scattering....Pages 445-448
Exotic Nuclei Produced and Probed Using Lasers and Ion Traps....Pages 449-455
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Measuring Quadrupole Moments in a Recoil-Shadow Geometry Using the Lems Method....Pages 457-462
Half-life for the rp-Process Waiting Point Nuclide 80 Zr Using Delayed Gamma Tagging....Pages 463-465
Nuclear Structure and the rp-Process in X-Ray Bursts....Pages 467-482
Magnetic Dipole Bands in 190 Hg....Pages 483-487
Front Matter....Pages 489-489
Summarising “The Nucleus”....Pages 491-509
Back Matter....Pages 511-516